Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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